March 14 Source: Jumblat Most at Risk after Geagea
Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat could be the second on the list of potential targets against Lebanese politicians following the assassination attempt on Lebanese Forces chief Samir Geagea, a high-ranking March 14 source said Wednesday.
The source told al-Joumhouria daily that Jumblat is most at risk after Geagea following a decision to launch “a campaign of intimidation and physical elimination” against the politicians.
Such a campaign is aimed at guaranteeing a success for the Hizbullah-led March 8 sources in the 2013 parliamentary elections, the sources said without accusing any party of involvement in Geagea’s murder attempt.
Current studies show that the March 14 forces will prevail in the polls, which led to the decision to eliminate certain personalities, they added.
Geagea escaped sniper fire unharmed last Wednesday as he was walking in the garden of his fortified residence in Maarab.
The source hinted that the PSP chief brought himself back under the gaze of assassins after he began to criticize the Syrian regime over its violent crackdown on protestors since March last year.
But Jumblat is hoping that he stays away from the danger of assassinations through keeping contact with Hizbullah and vowing not to force the collapse of the current parliamentary majority and Premier Najib Miqati’s cabinet.
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